The Radisson Hotel in Berlin holds the Aquadom, the worlds largest cylindrical aquarium.. picked by davbob 8 months ago

(you may have to use the drop down on top right to get to the interactive map).
This is pretty fascinating. picked by dollyllama 8 months ago

...and he's still at large. picked by mandolinorange 8 months ago

"This is John speaking, with his voice" picked by suebe 8 months ago

Youssif's latest surgery has dramatically improved his appearance, allowing him to open his mouth to take large bites of food and helping him to finally be able to smile again. picked by mandolinorange 8 months ago

Brilliant underwater photography. picked by mandolinorange 8 months ago

...and they claim you won't notice a thing! picked by kissmenow 8 months ago

Cartoon posted on office board implied managers were drunken lemurs. picked by mandolinorange 8 months ago

Lamar Roberts, 17, and Heather Trujillo, 16, were charged as adults on one count each of felony child abuse causing death, state prosecutor Robert Miller said in court documents released Wednesday and filed a day earlier. picked by dollyllama 8 months ago

Division of Wildlife agents confiscated a 4-month-old male tiger cub from a home in Colorado Wednesday afternoon. picked by mandolinorange 8 months ago

IronKite's Worth1000 image is currently featured in National Geographic. Big w00ts, IK! and thanks for the heads up. picked by cb__ 8 months ago

A woman who fell into coma woke up six weeks later - to be told she had become a mother. picked by Lilo 8 months ago

Tree pints three: The bar is hollowed into a 155ft wide Baobab's trunk on farmland in South Africa picked by wildminou 8 months ago

Almost $5,000 has poured into Dino's Variety store from all over the country to help support needy local children after a Christmas Grinch stole $67 from a donation jar last month. picked by marli 8 months ago

"We are no longer citizens of the United States of America and all those who live in the five-state area that encompasses our country are free to join us." The new country would issue its own passports and driving licenses, and living there would be tax-free -- provided residents renounce their US citizenship picked by 2manyusernames 8 months ago

Or smoking, adjusting your satnav, or changing the track on your MP3 player, according to new guidlines published in the UK today which change the way driving without due care and attention can be treated. picked by pocksucket 8 months ago

Using observations from ESO's VLT, astronomers were able for the first time to reconstruct the site of a flare on a solar-like star located 150 light years away. The study of this young star, nicknamed 'Speedy Mic' because of its fast rotation, will help scientists better understand the youth of our Sun. picked by AutumnLotus 8 months ago

Harry Potter may not have talked much about plasmonics in J. K. Rowling's fantasy series, but University of Maryland researchers are using this emerging technology to develop an invisibility cloak that exists beyond the world of bespectacled teenage wizards. picked by AutumnLotus 8 months ago

Mathematicians from the University of Exeter have solved the mystery of traffic jams by developing a model to show how major delays occur on our roads, with no apparent cause. Many traffic jams leave drivers baffled as they finally reach the end of a tail-back to find no visible cause for their delay. picked by AutumnLotus 8 months ago

A list made by Fred R Shapiro, the editor of the Yale Book of Quotations. picked by kamaloo 8 months ago

A pedestrian has been charged with damaging property after walking over a car that was parked illegally on the sidewalk in Greece's congested capital. picked by AutumnLotus 8 months ago

Merry Christmas to you, Mary Christmas. That's what the former Mary Young is hearing this holiday season, after she married Brian Christmas earlier this year. picked by AutumnLotus 8 months ago

Some seals and dolphins can hold their breath underwater for a cheek-popping hour or more without passing out from lack of oxygen. The secret to the superhero animal feat is elevated levels of special oxygen-carrying proteins found in their brains, a new study reveals. But the research leaves puzzles. picked by AutumnLotus 8 months ago

Animal control officers removed 237 dogs from the home of a 70-year-old woman who said she had been breeding the animals. "Many were covered in feces and urine. I think she slowly accumulated them to where they were more than she could handle." picked by AutumnLotus 8 months ago

A probable active glacier has been identified for the first time on Mars. The icy feature has been spotted in images from the European Space Agency's (Esa) Mars Express spacecraft. Ancient glaciers, many millions of years old, have been seen before on the Red Planet, but this one may only be several thousand years old. picked by AutumnLotus 8 months ago